Springbourne Christian Centre

Summer schedule

// July 22nd, 2010 // No Comments » // General

Well, summer is here at last, you can tell as it’s been raining today. I thought it best to let everyone know what the summer schedule is this year:

Sunday services will be 10:30 as usual in the morning, but will only last about an hour. There will be no sunday school, but the younger children (primary school, or thereabouts) will have somewhere supervised to go during the preach with a drink and games or a video etc.
There won’t be any Sunday evening services during the rest of July or Aug. With the numbers having been fairly low the last few months and traditionally dropping over the summer, we thought it best to give those who spend the effort putting them together a rest. We’ll look at putting a more programmed schedule in for the autumn to hopefully encourage people to come along.

The Edge finished last Fri Update: I’ve just been told that apparently there’s something this Fri for the Edge – maybe a sleepover

JAM finishes tomorrow (22nd) with ice cream and ’sports day’.

Mums & Toddlers will continue for the summer, with probably a week off at the end of Aug to allow the car park temporary toilets to be removed etc.

Wednesday prayer meetings will continue as usual.

House groups I confess to being unsure about. A lot of the Southbourne gang are having babies, so we’re taking a break. Check with the leaders for the other groups.

The website will continue, but might not get a sermon update every week. I’ll post those that have something recordable (I expect a few may be more visual/interactive which doesn’t really work on mp3, and I’m not up to video every week).

Swimmers home safely.

// June 19th, 2010 // Comments Off // General

Ready to go!,

The Pier to Pier swim was a great success – of 8 starters, 2 didn’t make it the whole way but 7 made it to the end.

Yes, I know the maths doesn’t add up, but we had a late starter 2/3 of the way through.

See some of the photos at http://www.flickr.com/groups/springbourne/

This week

// May 27th, 2010 // Comments Off // General

Sorry, there was only one service this week, and the sermon wasn’t recorded. I have added a twitter account for the church now though, and you can see our tweets in the right hand side. If you use twitter, you can follow ‘SpringbourneCC’. It’s quite nice as we can see how many people are using it (as opposed to the website, where we know roughly how many people turn up, but not exactly or who they are).

So we’re now on Twitter and Flickr – there’s a facebook account as well , but I’m not involved in that so can’t tell you much. I’ll get the details and put them up, but I’m sure you can find it if you’re a facebooker (and who isn’t these days, apart from me?).

Sermon Archive – 28th March 2010

// March 31st, 2010 // Comments Off // General

Dave spoke in the morning on ‘Celebration to crucifiction’  and in the evening on John 8  - “If the Son shall set you free, you shall be free indeed”.

Listen in to the morning here and the evening here.

Easter schedule

// March 30th, 2010 // Comments Off // General

Meeting times over Easter are as follows:

Good Friday (2nd Apr)

10:30 Service (approx 45 mins)
Neither Mums & Toddlers or JAM are  running on Good Friday.

Easter Sunday (4th Apr)

10:30 Family service.
No evening service

Easter Mon (5th Apr)

No Discipleship Explored (the course finished last week).

Fri 9th & 16th Apr

Mums & Toddlers will be running as usual.

JAM is not on as it’s still the school holidays.

From the prayer meeting

// March 18th, 2010 // Comments Off // General, thought for the week

Since there’s no special news this week other than building work, I thought I start a series of ‘thought for the week’ (don’t worry, I’ll get other people to do them too).

“The prayer meeting is the most important meeting of the week”. That’s one of those sayings that you hear thrown around a lot, but when you turn up to a meeting like the last couple it really starts to feel like it’s true.

Unfortunately in many churches, it’s often also one of the worst attended meetings of the week. We’ve really picked up on attendance at our meetings over the last year, and the effects of regular prayer together are starting to show in the people who are attending. Once God gets hold of you things really start to get scary, but it’s never a bad thing. If we can take some of the spirit that turns up in the prayer meetings (i.e. the Spirit) and carry the momentum through to the rest of our church life and our everyday lives, there’s no limit on what can happen.

I think we’re really going to start to see things rock in Springbourne this year (and I don’t just mean the music).

Get in on the ground floor. Get in to the prayer meetings.